Perverse Taiwan

Taylor & Francis

Perverse TaiwanAuthor(s): Howard Chiang, Yin Wang\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138349995, 978-1138349995\nSynopsis\nHost of the first gay pride in the Sinophone world, Taiwan is well-known for its mushrooming of liberal attitudes towards non-normative genders and sexualities after the lifting of Martial Law in 1987. Perverse Taiwan is the first collection of its kind to contextualize that development from an interdisciplinary perspective, focusing on its genealogical roots, sociological manifestations, and cultural representations. \n\nThis book enriches and reorients our understanding of postcolonial queer East Asia. Challenging a heteronormative understanding of Taiwans past and present, it provides fresh critical analyses of a range of topics from queer criminality and literature in the 1950s and 1960s to the growing popularity of cross-dressing performance and tongzhi (gay and lesbian) cinema on the cusp.